Description
With the onset of the Cold War in the late 1940s, President Truman worked in close bipartisan partnership with Arthur Vandenberg, senior Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to create a revolutionary new foreign policy for the United States to lead the free world. They did so at a bitterly partisan time that makes today’s partisanship seem tame by comparison. What can we learn from the history? What issues can form the basis of a new bipartisan foreign policy? Lawrence Haas, a former White House official and author of Harry and Arthur: Truman, Vandenberg, and the Partnership That Created the Free World, will discuss the history and its relevance to today.
